As promised, we present the last version of the Achilles Minimod before it was canceled. Changes include a new main menu, plus two new units for the Soviets and Empire of the Rising Sun.
It has been a month and a half since we came up with the idea for this minimod. Things seemed to be going all fine and dandy, then BAM! We ran into lots of bugs and annoying glitches. Our coders tried hard to figure out where the problems were coming from, but it seemed to take forever. Eventually, the Achilles Minimod 3.0 was canceled, because too much effort was being put into fixing these silly little bugs and we were getting sidetracked from what people REALLY wanted to see: a full release.
This download includes the Achilles Minimod 3.0. Disclaimer: This build is a WORK IN PROGRESS, and has not been balanced tested to a significant degree. Please acknowledge that there are several known bugs; alerting these to the development team is redundant, especially since we have taken our focus away from the minimod.
Have fun!
EDIT: Updated, May 26 2010, using Mod SDK 3.0 (instead of 1.0 as was used previously). Stuff should work properly now.
And you guys said it would be prolonged indefinitely :P
It is. This one's broken.
By which I mean there's one tiny part of it that doesn't work quite as well as it should. Remember that this was at like 95% completion since around the release of CnC4.
95% completed?
More complete than CnC4
lol
ah, well, it's certainly nice.
is there somewhere i can look up for the ''known bugs'', so i don't unnececairily annoy you?
The Auto Go jump is quite a wonderful animation! I love the wheels turning into the pistons.
Wow, this was a surprise. Does the AI use the new units yet?
Anyhow, I will download this weekend after getting my RA3 working properly on my laptop.
Thanks Guys!
Oh my god! It´s really a surprise!
Anyway, the AI know how to use the new units?
say so
Anyone got a alternate link?
I'll download this just as soon as I get home.
I can't get it to work- I haven't had problems with the past mini-mods, but then again someone helped me put those in folder.
When I try to run the game with it now it says "Did you remember to build data?" on top of a huge list of errors.
I have ParadoxAchilles.big and ParadoxAchilles_3.0.skudef in a Paradox Achilles folder in the mods folder for RA3.
When I try to open the big file in notepad, it goes into "not responding".
I may just need to wait for someone who knows what they are doing to help- but any advice?
are you sure you had the mod, not the source files?
well, that's strange, the skudef only conscist like 4 words saying achilles muinimod 3.0 mod BIG... Redownload it, maybe it's corrupted?
The skudef is suppose to tell the game what version the mod needs and the name of the mod file it needs.
i had your problem and i fix it like that
open the skudef file in the notepad
on the second line it must show
(add-big file ParadoxAchilles_1.0.big) or something like that
change the (1.0) to (3.0) and it may work
hope it helps
did not fix it for me. i dont get units or the new menu
i deleted my other mods did fresh copy of download still didnt work then i did the skudef thing and still vanilla ra3 showed so wat now?:(
why is it so hard for you? simply create a new profile
Yes. Downloaded the one I am posting about.
One question is the auto- go ment to attack buildings
Okay, I don't mean to sound offensive, but I am going to be blunt.
On the whole, some nice work guys, but what lets it down is the Auto Go and the Hawker. The Hawker appears to have an audio glitch that makes it's voice echo, hopefully this has been fixed or the lines have been re recorded before release.
And the Auto Go...it's voice is terrible! It doesn't even sound Japanese! It's just awful to listen to, with each of it's lines coming close to Most Annoying Sound.
On the other hand, I do think the Achilles and Mychette have nice voices - the Achilles sounds French, and the Mychette genuinely sounds Russian, so top marks for those.
er... the hawker echo was in 2.2 as well right? i think i might be intentional, since it's an older jet.
The Hawker voice being as it is represents the loud engines of the jet and distortions in communication gear- I think that units in normal RA3 also have such distortions, albeit to a lesser degree.
For the Hawker, the echo is intentional. I seem to remember that the guy who did the voice acting for it wanted to re-record the lines, but the effect will probably stay the same or similar.
For the Auto Go, I find that the voice is something that grows on you. Unfortunately Japanese women don't seem all that interested in providing voices at this point in time (i wonder why) but I kind of like the substitute we have. I would honestly like it if the lines could be re-recorded because they're a little too quiet and difficult to understand right now though.
If you want voice acting, you'd have your work cut out. Alas, voice actors are a hard find, because most mods will just recycle soundbites, so voice actors - amateur, first time or professional - are a hard find in mod communities.
Additional: I agree the effect for the Hawker needs to be changed. I'm all for making it sound like he's in the cockpit, but his lines do sound like a scrambled mess.
going to download and hear pipsqueak now....
not that anyone cares...
Nevermind got it downloaded. Had to delete old version.
Ah! Glad you solved the problem. I was going to suggest deleting ParadoxAchilles.big and replacing it with the one from the file because I suspect the one in the .rar ends in 3.0 or something.... I'm pretty bad at troubleshooting sometimes.
Someone with more experience with computers than me figured it out- I think something had to be deleted for it to work.
I've been playing around on the mini-mod and found a lack of glitches outside of the Myech secondary- is that all thats bugged?
No, it's primary is also bugged, the missiles should scatter like the V4's secondary.
About it's voice... I hate it, the quality is LOW, the worst part is that I know you can do better ("I rule ze skiez"). Hmm, gonna test it again and see if it really is that terrible.
I consider it better than what the very first Achilles voice sounded like. Then it sounded like a Canadian was randomly talking into your ear.
Hi, just downloaded Minimod 3.0! Ran into quite a bit of troubles though...
I can't load any skirmish games! (I tried deleting the skirmish.ini file, but it didn't fix it...) So I tried making a new account just for Paradox, but then it said "Did you remember to build data?" and then a long list of errors! This also happens when I try to change the resolution!
Any advice guys?
P.S. Keep up the good work! Can't wait for July 4th!
Change LOD to low.
i got some kinda of problem here too
somebody help?
I had some kind of problem like that and someone else fixed it- try deleting old versions of Paradox.
I put the ParadoxAchilles folder into Red Alert 3/Mods, but when I play the game, it's just vanilla RA3. What did I do wrong?
Rename the .big file to ParadoxAchillesTEST_1.0.big that should help.
Could someone tell me exactly where i save this file?
On Windows XP, you save it in My Documents/Red Alert 3/Mods. If the /Mods folder doesn't exist, create it.
To play the mod, right-click the RA3 shortcut and add -ui to the end of the Target line. Then double-click on the shortcut. It should open up the Red Alert 3 Command Center. From there, just go to Game Manager and you should be able to play the mod.
Normally we have a Readme or at the very least a description with this info in it but this release is unusual in a lot of ways. :/
I did that and saved it to the mods folder but its a .rar file do i need to download anearlier version first? If so, which one?
A .rar file is an archive. The files you actually want are inside. To open a .rar file, you need a program like WinRAR. The trial version is free, doesn't run out, and can be found on Google. Plenty of other people (especially modders) use the .rar format anyway so you may as well have it for future use.
With Red Alert 3 mods, you don't need to download previous versions. If you want 3.0, all you need to do is download 3.0. Good luck, have fun.
I suggest you use 7-Zip, it's not only faster and saver, but also understands alot more different archive formats.
Thanks its working now
27 mb? i thought...?
i thought it was working but i dont know how to open it without getting just the original ra3
how do you get it too worck?